Padma twits on a regular basis and after working at cisco, reading her twits and an article by Chambers saying the office of CTO in cisco has 0 resources I feel pretty confident saying she's useless.
Seriously go read what she has posted, her job at Cisco consists of going to events that Chambers can't be bothered to attend. She doesn't manage anyone, she doesn't accomplish anything and her leaving Cisco would only cause a brief shuffling of HR records to note she's no longer receiving an inflated salary and options.
I tried to find a project she has headed or something she has accomplished during her time at Cisco, can't find a single thing pretty amazing to have such a high profile position and yet accomplish nothing.
I hope people realize the whole question is a hypthetical one.
"But what should I do if Amir or someone like him from a country associated with Bad Stuff posts on our own forums looking for technical advice?"
The whole thing is a what if, Amir designed and built the plane on his own without any help from the blogger. The blogger is simply afraid of what happens "if" Amir happens to ask a technical question and oh god help him he might give him an answer.
Iran certainly doesn't have any universities or access to technical books so this forum would be the only source they would have for such advanced knowledge.
I would suggest Chris stay far far away from anyone whose country might do "Bad Stuff" like invade other countries or I dunno torture people in secret prisons.
And a note on the numbers, I have no clue how they came up with that but I have a hard time believing any of it. Blogsbyiranians list any blog that Hossein comes across and it has a list of 100-200. My personal opinion is that there are about 5000 active persian blogs. Oh and cause I know someone will ask for it. some iranian porn
Ok I am glad everyone all of a sudden cares this much about the bloggers in my country. But a few facts.
* I can't get to hoders website right now but I don't belive that anyone has verified the web blocking. * While blogging is popular in Iran it's not the next great revolution. It's a way for people to talk, browse for porn and do all the other things most college students do in the US. * The Iranian people are capable of figuring out a government for themselves. When theycouldn't take the Shah anymore they dealt with him. * As the student demonstrations showed a few years ago the regime still has a lot of backers, eventually Iranians will figure out what they really want and how much they care about fighting for it.
In the meantime you can get a list of some english blogs written by iranians over at http://blogsbyiranians.com/ it appears to be down at the moment since I suspect it's hosted at hoders server but there is always the google cache if you want to look at it right now.
I can sort of belive 1, but 2 ? come on you cann't really belive that. If I say I don't want to see anything from Katz why would I want to post questions to him ? I simply want my/. experience - Katz.
I think most of us would like our slashdot without katz and were happier when we didn't have to see anything related to him. This has more to do with him showing up even when you have stories by him blocked than random flamings.
Ok I've been living in SV for about 6 months now so I feel pretty comfortable commenting on this. The problem is not so much the "geek" personality or lack thereof as it is the fact that there aren't any girls here. The female/male ratio at my company is less than 1/10. I never had any problems finding a girlfriend or meeting people when I was in college but in SV there seems to be a wall around people. Most people are concerened about the next big IPO and 6 figure salaries are not enough. After living here for 6 months I've put a 5 year cap on my time in SV. After that you'll find me somewhere in the pacific on a Pacific Sea Craft boat. And if finding a girlfriend and having a social life means that much to you, you'll do the same.
You obvviously haven't spent a lot of time in feminist academia. I have seen women get by with doing less in the CS department all the time. And after I took a women's studies class my senior year I met a series of the "rabid feminazis". Now granted there are a lot more normal feministes out there who have legitimate concerns about their place in society than there are feminazis but the feminazis do existe and they do try to twist the system into their favor as much as possible.
but ESR didn't add anything new to the discussion it just looked like the comments that were already posted under Q1 release and then rehashed. I think everyone agrees that security through obscurity is a bad idea but as Carmack explains in the world of modems you don't really have a choice, you need the performance to sell games. Now if some e-commerce site decided to do this then I would be worried but this is just a game we are talking about. I could see if e-bay had released their source code and people had decided to hack it so that they could cheat but this is just silly.
I don't think the scientific community gives a rat's ass about what the world's religious leaders think. But they are smart enough to realize you don't want a bunch of crazy lunatics outside your building protesting that you are going against god's will. Personally I belive in god and think if god didn't want us to do something he would send us some other sign beside carzy lunatics. Sooner or later we are going to go down the road of creating a single cell organisme and I can already see the FOX special "When E. Coli attack". There are a lot of benefits to this, the sooner we figure out how to creat genetic bacteria the sooner we can find cures for disases that require gene changes like Sickle Cell and Huntingtons disease.
Is it just me or are the stupid people taking over the world ? Everyday you hear about yet another stupid law suit. I think NASA should come up a with a laser satalite that can kill stupid people from orbit. Now that will be money well spent.
There is growth and reproduction and it reacts to outside stimuli. I think/. is a great example of the net reacting to outside stiumuli and I am pretty sure my unix boxes eat electricity. So it's alive, reproduces, reacts to outside stimuli, and uses nutrients. I think the net meets the bilogical defenition of alive.
They also make great java optimizing tools like quantify and purify. I haven't actually used them but I had to install them on one of our unix servers. From what the developer told me you can measure how much each routine and system call takes and how much memory it uses. Great if you are trying to find memeory leaks. Althought the software costs a few thousand $ not something you could just buy for personal use.
You can only complain about the CA beach if you haven't been to the NJ beaches. Trust me even santa cruz boardwalks looks great compared to NJ beaches.
What I want to know is why is the church getting so worked up over Dogma when movies like Stigmata and EOD get by with no notice. I am not a christian but to me they seemed a lot more offensive. If you liked Chasing Amy and Clercks then you will love Dogma. I agree that the ending was a little weak but the first 3/4 of the movie more than made up for the weak ending. In case you are interested here is a link to official Kevin Smith page. A new animated show based on Clerks will also appear on ABC next season.
If you really want to teach you will have to actually go to the university just so the people there can see you. And you would probably have to start as a teaching assistant which means you will do all the leg work for some other professor. It doesn't sound like you have the time to do this if you wan to keep your full time job. IMO the BS is worth it only if you cann't take the upper level classes without it. I learned a lot in my upper level classes but I probably could have taken them day 1 and done just as well. As for the industry it depends on the company you will see people who post that you don't need the degree and people who post that you need the degree, at the end the issue is what you want. Getting a Masters just for $$$ is not worth it and again IMO if you want to learn more you can always buy books so the Masters in only usefull if you don't think you can learn on your own or if you want someone to explain concepts to you.
I think this is just some overzealous lawyer that put For Dummies in a search engin and got to the web site. The fact that he/she calls it a chat room furthur demonstrates the person's lack of understanding. Stupidity has not stopped people in the past and I wouldn't be suprised if this person takes legal action on behalf of IDG. Maybe you can put something at the bottom of the page that says "We have are not related to IDG". No one is making any $$$ here so I don't think they have a case, but then again I am not a lawyer.
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Padma twits on a regular basis and after working at cisco, reading her twits and an article by Chambers saying the office of CTO in cisco has 0 resources I feel pretty confident saying she's useless.
Seriously go read what she has posted, her job at Cisco consists of going to events that Chambers can't be bothered to attend. She doesn't manage anyone, she doesn't accomplish anything and her leaving Cisco would only cause a brief shuffling of HR records to note she's no longer receiving an inflated salary and options.
I tried to find a project she has headed or something she has accomplished during her time at Cisco, can't find a single thing pretty amazing to have such a high profile position and yet accomplish nothing.
I hope people realize the whole question is a hypthetical one.
"But what should I do if Amir or someone like him from a country associated with Bad Stuff posts on our own forums looking for technical advice?"
The whole thing is a what if, Amir designed and built the plane on his own without any help from the blogger. The blogger is simply afraid of what happens "if" Amir happens to ask a technical question and oh god help him he might give him an answer.
Iran certainly doesn't have any universities or access to technical books so this forum would be the only source they would have for such advanced knowledge.
I would suggest Chris stay far far away from anyone whose country might do "Bad Stuff" like invade other countries or I dunno torture people in secret prisons.
Obligatory list of persian blogs
Wiki article
A few that I personally like.
Political blogs:
Brooding Persian
Iranian Truth
Eyeranian
Funny
Shirin
Negar
Lost in Texas
Ok fine this is mine sometimes I think I am funny
And a note on the numbers, I have no clue how they came up with that but I have a hard time believing any of it. Blogsbyiranians list any blog that Hossein comes across and it has a list of 100-200. My personal opinion is that there are about 5000 active persian blogs. Oh and cause I know someone will ask for it. some iranian porn
Ok I am glad everyone all of a sudden cares this much about the bloggers in my country. But a few facts.
* I can't get to hoders website right now but I don't belive that anyone has verified the web blocking.
* While blogging is popular in Iran it's not the next great revolution. It's a way for people to talk, browse for porn and do all the other things most college students do in the US.
* The Iranian people are capable of figuring out a government for themselves. When theycouldn't take the Shah anymore they dealt with him.
* As the student demonstrations showed a few years ago the regime still has a lot of backers, eventually Iranians will figure out what they really want and how much they care about fighting for it.
In the meantime you can get a list of some english blogs written by iranians over at http://blogsbyiranians.com/
it appears to be down at the moment since I suspect it's hosted at hoders server but there is always the google cache if you want to look at it right now.
that's why you have companies like www.infoblox.com making it easier for people to use bind.
I can sort of belive 1, but 2 ? come on you cann't really belive that. If I say I don't want to see anything from Katz why would I want to post questions to him ? I simply want my /. experience - Katz.
I think most of us would like our slashdot without katz and were happier when we didn't have to see anything related to him. This has more to do with him showing up even when you have stories by him blocked than random flamings.
We need another box that says click here if you don't want to see anythign associated with John Katz damme it.
Was it really necessary to say Open Source 15 times in the first two answers ?
Ok I've been living in SV for about 6 months now so I feel pretty comfortable commenting on this. The problem is not so much the "geek" personality or lack thereof as it is the fact that there aren't any girls here. The female/male ratio at my company is less than 1/10. I never had any problems finding a girlfriend or meeting people when I was in college but in SV there seems to be a wall around people. Most people are concerened about the next big IPO and 6 figure salaries are not enough. After living here for 6 months I've put a 5 year cap on my time in SV. After that you'll find me somewhere in the pacific on a Pacific Sea Craft boat. And if finding a girlfriend and having a social life means that much to you, you'll do the same.
You obvviously haven't spent a lot of time in feminist academia. I have seen women get by with doing less in the CS department all the time. And after I took a women's studies class my senior year I met a series of the "rabid feminazis". Now granted there are a lot more normal feministes out there who have legitimate concerns about their place in society than there are feminazis but the feminazis do existe and they do try to twist the system into their favor as much as possible.
but ESR didn't add anything new to the discussion it just looked like the comments that were already posted under Q1 release and then rehashed. I think everyone agrees that security through obscurity is a bad idea but as Carmack explains in the world of modems you don't really have a choice, you need the performance to sell games. Now if some e-commerce site decided to do this then I would be worried but this is just a game we are talking about. I could see if e-bay had released their source code and people had decided to hack it so that they could cheat but this is just silly.
I don't think the scientific community gives a rat's ass about what the world's religious leaders
think. But they are smart enough to realize you don't want a bunch of crazy lunatics outside your building protesting that you are going against god's will. Personally I belive in god and think if god didn't want us to do something he would send us some other sign beside carzy lunatics. Sooner or later we are going to go down the road of creating a single cell organisme and I can already see the FOX special "When E. Coli attack".
There are a lot of benefits to this, the sooner we figure out how to creat genetic bacteria the sooner we can find cures for disases that require gene changes like Sickle Cell and Huntingtons disease.
Is it just me or are the stupid people taking over the world ? Everyday you hear about yet another stupid law suit. I think NASA should come up a with a laser satalite that can kill stupid people from orbit. Now that will be money well spent.
I didn't put that in I swear, it's the web it's turning on me. hellppp!!!
There is growth and reproduction and it reacts to outside stimuli. I think /. is a great example of the net reacting to outside stiumuli and I am pretty sure my unix boxes eat electricity.
So it's alive, reproduces, reacts to outside stimuli, and uses nutrients. I think the net meets the bilogical defenition of alive.
They also make great java optimizing tools like quantify and purify. I haven't actually used them but I had to install them on one of our unix servers. From what the developer told me you can measure how much each routine and system call takes and how much memory it uses. Great if you are trying to find memeory leaks. Althought the software costs a few thousand $ not something you could just buy for personal use.
You can only complain about the CA beach if you haven't been to the NJ beaches. Trust me even santa cruz boardwalks looks great compared to NJ beaches.
What I want to know is why is the church getting so worked up over Dogma when movies like Stigmata and EOD get by with no notice. I am not a christian but to me they seemed a lot more offensive. If you liked Chasing Amy and Clercks then you will love Dogma. I agree that the ending was a little weak but the first 3/4 of the movie more than made up for the weak ending. In case you are interested here is a link to official Kevin Smith page. A new animated show based on Clerks will also appear on ABC next season.
If you really want to teach you will have to actually go to the university just so the people there can see you. And you would probably have to start as a teaching assistant which means you will do all the leg work for some other professor. It doesn't sound like you have the time to do this if you wan to keep your full time job. IMO the BS is worth it only if you cann't take the upper level classes without it. I learned a lot in my upper level classes but I probably could have taken them day 1 and done just as well. As for the industry it depends on the company you will see people who post that you don't need the degree and people who post that you need the degree, at the end the issue is what you want. Getting a Masters just for $$$ is not worth it and again IMO if you want to learn more you can always buy books so the Masters in only usefull if you don't think you can learn on your own or if you want someone to explain concepts to you.
Seeing as this is a very high profile use of Linux did anyone from Microsoft contact you ?
Sounds fair to me, I really like the part when you tell they can sue fictional characters if it makes them happy.
I think this is just some overzealous lawyer that put For Dummies in a search engin and got to the web site. The fact that he/she calls it a chat room furthur demonstrates the person's lack of understanding. Stupidity has not stopped people in the past and I wouldn't be suprised if this person takes legal action on behalf of IDG. Maybe you can put something at the bottom of the page that says "We have are not related to IDG". No one is making any $$$ here so I don't think they have a case, but then again I am not a lawyer.
Yeah I know, but I still want to know what he thought of it.
What did you think of Neal Stephenson's Cryptomonicom ?